Correction for distortion of echo-planar images used to calculate the apparent diffusion coefficient

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 960-964

  Haselgrove, John C ^a   Moore, James R ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC); diffusion imaging; distortions; EPI

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION (WAVES); ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SIGNAL ENCODING;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION IMAGING; DIFFUSION-SENSITIZING GRADIENTS; LINEAR TRANSLATION; PHASE ENCODING; PLANAR IMAGES;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0029994241     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910360620     Document Type: Article

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